Downtown Connector
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| James Wendell George Parkway | ||||
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| Maintained by Georgia DOT | ||||
| Length: | 7.40 mi (11.91 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1952 – present | |||
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| South end: |
  I‑75 / I‑85 towards Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
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 SR 166 in Atlanta I‑20 in Atlanta SR 10 in Atlanta    US 29 / US 78 / US 278 / SR 8 in Atlanta
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I‑75 / I‑85 in Midtown Atlanta
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| Location | ||||
| Counties: | Fulton | |||
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In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or I-75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city. Beginning at the I-85/Langford Parkway interchange, the Downtown Connector runs generally due north, meeting the west–east I-20 in the middle. Just north of this is the Grady Curve around Grady Memorial Hospital. Continuing north, the terminus of the Downtown Connector is the Brookwood Interchange or Brookwood Split in the Brookwood area of the city. The overall length of the Downtown Connector is approximately 7.5 miles (12 km). Since the 2000s, it has been officially named James Wendell George Parkway for most of its length, although it is still designated the Connector in the mainstream. It also has unsigned designations State Route 401 (I-75) and State Route 403 (I-85) along its length, due to I-75 and I-85 having a 400-series reference numbers.
The Downtown Connector had its origins in the city's original system of expressways, construction of which began in the early 1950s with the Northeast Expressway and the South Expressway. Construction of the "connector" between the two, which was numbered State Route 295, and was slated to carry US 19/US 41 at one point, was not completed until the early 1960s.
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